难以化解的“魔咒”:民族文学能否超越“边缘”

The Unsolvable “Curse”:Can Ethnic Literature Break the “Edge”

民族文学常常被置于边缘的位置,或是对主流的补充,或是对中心的抵抗,或是处在世界边缘之边缘。世界文学的宏阔视野能够打开民族文学的研究空间,但如果束缚在世界/本土、中心/边缘的二元区分前提下,不论是“世界文学”还是“民族文学”都无法超越之前的理解。在世界体系观念下,认识到当前世界文学交融性的、体系化的存在形态,能够真正让民族文学获得一种平等地位,打破如影随形的“边缘魔咒”。

Ethnic literature is often placed on the edge,either as a supplement to the mainstream,a resistance to the center,or on the edge of the edge of the world.The broad vision of world literature can open the research space of ethnic literature,but if it is bound to the binary distinction between world/local and center/edge,neither “world literature” nor “ethnic literature” can go beyond previous understandings.Under the concept of world system,recognizing the current blending and systematic existence of world literature can truly enable national literature to gain an equal status and break the haunted “marginal curse”.